Shia LaBeouf Explains The Origins Of His Friendship With Kid CuDi

The "Transformers" star has already been at the helm of two CuDi videos and reveals how the connection was made.

Kid CuDi surprised fans when he announced that actor Shia LaBeouf would be in the director’s chair for “Maniac” and “Marijuana.” According to the Hollywood star, it was all hooked up through rapper Cage, who he’s been trying to make a movie about for some time.

“[Cage] is one of my good friends. Cage, Chris Palko, and I had been trying to make a movie about him for a while," he told MTV News. "Cudi hit [Cage] up and did a song with him. Cage sent me the song, called 'Maniac,' so initially, we started prepping this video, which is really like a short horror movie that I made that comes out on Halloween," he said. "In the interim, while we were finishing up the effects on it, [Cudi] told me he was going to Amsterdam for the Cannabis Cup."

He recalled being in Amsterdam with Cudders, and how it led to his involvement with his music videos. “It's as big as Spielberg. It is for a 25-year-old male who has all these crazy fantasies about Amsterdam, which every male my age has, there's that college trip you always want to take," he continued. "And to do that with CuDi when he's a judge, and I get to roll with him with my 8mm camera [like] an 'Easy Rider' documentarian, I felt like Cameron Crowe or something."

Almar

Anonymous

honest giraffe

anyone ever watched his old show "Even Stevens", Ren was a babe
if you would of told me back then that he would be directing music videos for a dude who thinks hes a rapper even though he just talks and sings i would have laughed

Anonymous

Nick Crookshank

shane

From your one random story that dosn't even get him into the hollywood douche quarterfinals. kid cudi punching that fan was worse than that and the only reason people even blow that up is because he hit the corniest looking dude who didn't deserve to get hit.

Anonymous

Anonymous

dude is the biggest douche bags in hollywood
saw video of this guy parking his oversize pickup truck so close to some dudes car he couldnt even get in until shia left
not surprised that "cudders" would be buds with him, fucking child actors
birds of a feather